Music dedicated to the promotion and enhancement of altered consciousness states. I have accumulated a respectable number of honors and distinctions in the field of mainstream new music performance and composition, yet I have always existed on the periphery of the establishment. This has cost me dearly in financial support and professional connections, but it has afforded me the freedom to work, create and teach out from under the shadow of the bureaucratic mind set which dominates all academic life and thought. I have had many deeply transforming psychic experiences which have illuminated my work and teaching and which have enabled me to mobilize energies in my students and ensemble players which many people have described as "miraculous."
